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Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025

Filed:

Aug. 25, 2023
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Clarence Filsfils, Brussels, BE;

Pablo Camarillo Garvia, Madrid, ES;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/35 (2022.01); H04L 43/106 (2022.01); H04L 45/02 (2022.01); H04L 45/74 (2022.01); H04L 69/22 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/35 (2013.01); H04L 43/106 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure provides a packet tracing mechanism will be described that provides packet tracing information to a mobile network controller. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a data packet sent from a source node to a destination node; determining if the data packet is to be updated with packet tracing information; and upon determining that the data packet is to be updated, updating the packet tracing information of the data packet to include identification of the network device and an ingress timestamp of the data packet at the network device for a corresponding network controller to determining network routing policies.


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